Age of Man
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- noun
- Specialized
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Era del Hombre
- Many believe that the Age of Man has led to significant advancements in technology and culture.
Examples
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Anthropocene: The Age of Man
Blog text (32) -
Tonight, the Age of Man comes to an end.
Fiction book (1998) -
"We are here today to celebrate the birth of the Golden Age of Man," said Ted Williams's Unfrozen Head.
Blog text (11) -
As destructive and game-changing as the cataclysmic events separating whole epochs, have we ushered in an Age of Man with our agriculture, industrialism, and war?
Blog text (32) -
The Age of Man marks the geological period when humans began to dominate the planet.
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Scientists are studying the effects of climate change during the Age of Man on the environment.
Synonyms
The most recent part of Earth's history covering the last two million years with ice ages and humans evolving
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'age' (a historical period) with 'man' (humanity) using the common English pattern 'Age of X', so its meaning — the period characterized by humans — is directly derivable from the constituents. The preposition 'of' is merely the linking function and the construction is cross-linguistically familiar, making the MWE transparent to learners who know the component words.
Etymology
Age of Man comes from the old way of naming long times by what matters most. Age means a long period and Man means humans. One popular idea says that when people began to change the Earth a lot, that time was called the Age of Man, also called the 'Anthropocene', so the phrase means the period when 'humans' are the main force shaping the planet.